April 16, 1918
Comrades Bogolepov and Gukovsky,

I am sending you a draft law on shares. You must urgently and without delay:

1) discuss it,

2) outline your own amendments,

3) immediately engage specialists you know in the discussion (request their opinion from them — preferably in writing); professors can be commissioned to provide an opinion,

4) all of this must be completed by tomorrow, since tomorrow, April 17, we must confirm Decree No. 68 in the Council of People's Commissars.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1933

in *Lenin Miscellany* XXI

Printed from the manuscript